Definition of Music

According to Insight on the Scriptures, the definition of music is as under:One of the gifts of God by which man can render praise and thanks-giving to his
Creator as well as give expression to his emotions, his sorrows and joys. Especially her
singing been prominent in the worship of Jehovah God, but instrumental music, too,
has played a vital sole. It reasserted not only to accompany the vocalists, but also to
complement their singing. So it is not surprising those references to both vocal and
instrumental music.
Music is one the oldest arts of man kind it flourished in ancient China, a song dating
from about 1800 B.C with notation in a heptatonic and diatonic scale has been found
at Ugarit in Syria it was clearly important of the ancient Egyptians and later to the
Greeks and Romans, Yet no thread of development in any sense can be traced in any
of these civilizations. We have very little knowledge of what music was like even in
ancient Greece, which otherwise had such a profound effect on western civilizations.
The early development of music in Europe was closely bound up with the Christian
Church. Early Christian Music, which had its origins in the synagogue worship of the
Jews, was codified by St. Ambrose in 384 and further rationalized as plain song in
eight church modes by Pope Gregory the Great at the end of the 6 th century. This
music developed melodically with extra ordinary elaboration and much of it can still
be heard today, thanks to the researches of the monks of salesmen in France.
The first polyphonic music appeared before 1000 A.D and soon after that time Guido
Arezzo, (C,995-C,1050) is said to have invented a kind of staff notation and the
original form of tonic sol-fa : The earliest substantial records of poly phonic music from
the Paris Notre Dame School where the motet was developed with the Gregorian
melody a cantus firms (fixed song).